Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D., First, congratulations ! Second, my regrets. I would have enjoyed taking this opportunity to perhaps see you and other Boston area Lugers. Unfortunately I will be in Montreal. Skateboard photography sounds very, very interesting, though I do not suppose Ben uses Leica M for this purpose. - - Phong > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 3:47 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] FYI Boston Area Lugers... > > > Four - a show of work by First Son Ben Colen and three buddies opens Friday, > July 26, 7 p.m. to midnight at Berwick Research Institute, 14 Palmer Street, > Roxsbury - off Washington Street in Dudley Square, across from payless > shoes - or so says the post card. > > While Ben's primary work is of skateboarders performing numerous impossible > stunts, this show includes the first public unveiling of a 4x5 project shot > late late at night and quite illegally in the tunnels of the Boston subway > system. He and friend Sear Keenan, whose work is also included in the show, > wandered the tunnels between the time the trains stopped running on weekend > nights, and the time they began running again on Sunday mornings. And the > results are - if you can excuse a dad's hyperbole and pride - quite > spectacularly beautiful. > > B. D. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html